Serious C road crash in Westminster W1B on 21 August 2003 at 10:52 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle hit a pedestrian on a C road in Westminster at 10:52 on Thursday 21 August 2003. A 38-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 21 Aug 2003
- Thursday, 10:52
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51036, longitude -0.13628, in the W1B postcode district and within the built-up area of the City of Westminster. It is one of the crashes that make up the St James's, Westminster, WC2H 7JD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Westminster
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200301DM01275
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 29 December 1991.
Slight
Carbodies Taxi crash on a C road in Westminster, 29 December 1991
At the same spotRef 199101CV00213
Slight
Ford Transit Connect crash on a C road in Westminster, 18 December 2008
10 m awayRef 200801CW12302
Slight
Honda crash on a C road in Westminster, 30 January 2003
10 m awayRef 200301DM00143
Slight
Bicycle crash on a C road in Westminster, 23 November 2025
14 m awayRef 2025010611431
Serious
Mercedes E Class crash on a C road in Westminster, 27 November 1998
20 m awayRef 199801CD00485
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Westminster, 28 March 1984
20 m awayRef 198401CV00075
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 38, hit by vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from offside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 200301DM01275 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Westminster road accident statistics for 2003.